Is it not the truth?
OLD MAN.
Son, thou hast seen the Traveller in the sands
Move in the dizzy light of the hot noon,
Huge[73] as the giant race of elder times,
And his Camel, than the monstrous Elephant,
Seem of a vaster bulk.
THALABA.
A frequent sight.
OLD MAN.
And hast thou never in the twilight, fancied
Familiar object into some strange shape
And form uncouth?
THALABA.
Aye! many a time.
OLD MAN.